Thus the question of how Jesus became God became turned round in the course of time into the question of how God became Jesus. By the time of the Ecumenical Councils and the formulation of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity the basic Christian Gospel had gone through a remarkable change.

when did jesus become the son of god? For two thousand years, Christians have always believed that Jesus is the Eternal Son of God. This truth is enshrined in the Nicene Creed: "I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father".